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Black Christmas

2019 4.5 19.5K PG-13 views saved
Black Christmas

A group of sorority pledges are stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break. That is until the young women discover that the killer is part of an underground campus conspiracy.

Countries: US
Languages: English
Content Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 1hrs 32min
Status: Released
Release date: 2019-12-11
Release format: Streaming — Dec 12, 2019
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mmorgnn
@mmorgnn 4 years ago

I was cheering the ~~girls~~ women on the whole time. I'm very glad they didn't kill off any black characters either.

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mmorgnn
@mmorgnn 4 years ago

I was cheering the ~~girls~~ women on the whole time. I'm very glad they didn't kill off any black characters either.

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Jim222001
@jim222001 4 years ago

A psycho killer secretly lived in a sorority house in the original and the 2006 remake. From the trailers you can tell this is nothing like that.
It is a watered down girl power remake that is PG-13 for gods sake. Nothing against girl power. It is a step in the wrong direction though. For the slasher genre. If every girl is the final girl.
The first remake was even more brutally violent than the original. This movie is nothing like them. Just uses the Black Christmas name to sell tickets. Despite a Mean Girls rip-off singing scene. Not much of it even feels like a Horror Christmas movie.

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jygglypuffdaddy
@jygglypuffdaddy 4 years ago

It's a perfectly average PG-13 horror flick. Middling, but not particularly bad or good, with some good moments thrown in here and there. But because it has an all female primary cast and is made by a largely female production team, and dares to be overtly feminist and touch on topical issues surrounding rape culture and toxic masculinity, some of the other commenters on here feel the need to write outright sexist diatribes and have to bend over backwards to read an "anti men" message into a film that has none. Sad and predictable. Nothing the film outright states or implies about sexism is untrue.

(And no, this film does not claim that "all men are rapists". That's a gross misreading of the film, and directly rebuked by the text - not even the subtext, the TEXT. The main characters specifically say they do NOT believe this at one point, and the biggest male role that is not overtly antagonistic is on the girls' side. If your mind hasn't been poisoned by alt right nonsense and conspiracy thinking, you can see that.)

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Catsy
@catsy 5 years ago

I had a day to gather my thoughts and I think I need to watch this again. This movie is a hot mess. The script seems so bare bones, but with so many opportunities to be biased at the same time, combined with terrible actors.

The first death, Lindsey, is shown as the girl walking home alone at night, but when she is attacked she barely tries to escape, instead deciding to stick around instead of calling security or running away. Boom, dead.

Riley, an abuse victim, is studying at a university with a long history steeped in the appreciation of men. She was sexually assaulted 3 years prior by the former head of another frat house who drugged and raped her. Unfortunately she never sought therapy, and all her sorority sisters either don't acknowledge it or tell her in so many words to get over it, coercing her into joining their shit dance number as their 4th with the knowledge that her abuser is there.

Riley seems to have some history with her teacher who singles her out during class, blaming her for a petition to fire him. In reality it is her social justice warrior friend begging students to sign the petition. She is loud and proud, however, stomps all over riley throughout the movie. She's a terrible friend.

In the sorority house, there is evidence of strange happenings but no one except Riley acknowledges it. For almost the entire movie the cat is missing. Girls are bring attacked and going missing but no one takes it seriously. Riley goes to campus security and is almost comically shut down. The guard even tries to say, boys will be boys. We get it, the movie is feminist, but just stop shoving it down our throats.

The bodies of the deceased are hidden around the school but no one even finds them until the climax. The actual twist of the movie was pretty good. I really liked it, but the getting there was so terrible and garbage. Even the camera work is shit and I don't get whats going on with the sound and echoing.

There's one particular scene where the girl with the cat gets choked and when the bad guy pulls the christmas lights around her neck, the camera abruptly zooms in like it was done post production. The same effect youtubers use for comedy.

There's a bust of the school founder and when put in a specific frat house, it activates the spirit of the founder, who encourages men to behave like alphas. Their hazing ritual includes reciting a Latin inscription and smearing a black liquid on the pledge which possesses him with the spirit of the founder. Riley has an opportunity to destroy it but just chooses to do everything so slowly.

I feel like this movie is terrible but I'm not sure.

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KornManiak23
@kornmaniak23 1 year ago

One of the worst Christmas horror movies

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J G
@chopssake 1 year ago

Meandering social commentary disguised as a horror movie. This is not “Night of the Living Dead”, a thought provoking and satisfying horror movie. No! The bad guys are J Crew models (sorry for the obscure reference…I’m old), the good guys are “betas”, and You’ll figure it all out in 15 minutes tops!

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Lee Brown Barrow Movie Buff
@lee-brown-barrow 5 years ago

Second remake of the seventies chiller is both timely and ridiculous.

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Dann Michalski
@jarvis-8243417 5 years ago

Black Christmas isn’t so much a horror movie as it’s a “toxic masculinity” allegory. After pulling a prank on the AKO fraternity the girls of the MKE sorority find themselves being picked off and hunted by mysterious men in black cloaks and masks. Featuring Imogen Poots and Carl Elwes, the cast isn’t too bad, but they’re stuck playing rather cliché stereotypes. And the film just won’t let up on the Me Too politics. It fact, it seems to forget that it’s a horror film; as most of the kills take place off-screen or are cut away from – denying the audience the blood and gore that they’ve come for. Incredibly disappointing, Black Christmas is a jumbled mess that’s more concerned with knocking the patriarchy than delivering scares.

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Heather
@thingsarebetter 5 years ago

I....I have...such...mixed feelings about this movie. The action was good, even if the story was a bit slow at times. But they should have NEVER presented this as a remake because it is clearly not. It's more similar to Sorority Row (2009) than what it's supposed to be loosely based off of. If you don't think of it as a remake, it's okay. Not fond of the overly 'womyn good men bahd' message it tries to send and the characters and dialogue are atrocious but...decent action and okay plot twist if you take out the sexism involved.

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Erick
@offbeatparadox 1 year ago

While the feminist survivor narrative was appreciated, the twist completely undermines the tone and was just stupid.

Only related in name to Black Christmas.

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